UK festivals

In the United Kingdom we have differents celebrations and each one have a way of celebrating. And now I going to explain some.

Boxing day: Is on 26 of December and is a holiday day so the shops are closed. It is known as Boxing Day because it is an epoch in which the merchants receive his bonus. Traditionally it is a date to visit the family and friends and to devote itself to celebrate. In addition, the Boxing Day is one day for football matches and other traditionally English sports.

Pancake day: Is the Tuesday that falls down 41 days before the spring beginning, is eve of the fasting Lent. On this day, from the first days of the Christianity, all the Christians necessarily were confessing and taking advantage of the last opportunity to consume all the rich food in fats prohibited during the Lent.

Burns night: To commemorate the birthday of the Scotch poet Robert Burns, the Night of Burns is a patriotic festival that is celebrated on January 25.  The party begins with typical food, with delights as "Powsowdie"; "Cabbie-claw" and " Finnan toasties". But the speciality is in the haggis - ground lamb, offals, flour of oats and spices parboiled in the stomach of the sheep.

Carnival of nothing hill: This carnival is very famous and his beginning date back of the year 1966. Every year realizes a great holiday that began for being a traditional holiday of the Indians who were residing in London but now is an english tradition. A parade is realized where different groups are distinguished as those of South America, Africa where we see his traditional suits and can listen his traditonal music.

http://www.protocolo.org/internacional/europa/fiestas_tradicionales_y_religiosas_del_reino_unido_festivos.html

Computer games

3)  Another recreational activity is playing computer games.  Find examples in the English-speaking media of the effects of video gaming.  Is the issue fairly presented?  What benefits are gained from playing computer games?  What are the drawbacks? 

Of the many recreational activities that exist in this world, we can find computer games. Computer games have become more popular and are being part of the lives of little children that spend part of their day on this activity. On the internet you can find a lot of compute games with advantages in one hand and disadvantages in the other.

One of the most popular webs of computer games is miniclip.com that has more than 65 million game players per month andpublishes and distributes more than 750 games, each games is different whit their own. Another web that has computer games is computergames.ro, I've played on this page and I find it fantastic and very entertaining.

The advantages that we can find on computer games is that tend to assimilate and withhold information also they promote self-esteem that comes with success and development of basic skills such as quick reflexes and memory.

And the disadvantages of computer games are: can cause nervousness and anxiety, may cause some delay in the process of socialization and even isolation, create stress and in some cases encourage violence and report inappropriate values.

In conclusion, the computer games as everything has his good and bad side, but in my opinion it is better to spend time doing more productive things such as doing sports, playing in the playground or doing  homework than playing computer games.

http://corporate.miniclip.com/page/view/about/g

http://computergames.ro

Mobile phones are gradually replacing computers

Now a day phones are becoming more important and popular. Most of people don’t use them only to phone or text someone, they also use it to go into the web. Now almost every phone has internet everywhere, so you can search in the web, check your e-mail or even be online on facebook or twitter at any moment.

We could say that phones are replacing computers because phones have a lot of advantages, first because you could surf the internet anytime you want and it is really fast as the computers are, second, because if you are a business man, you don’t necessary have to be at home or in the office to check an important e-mail, and finally because they are smaller and easier to transport.

To support my arguments that phones are replacing computers, I search at the internet and I find two pages approve my ideas.

One of the websites created by Charles Arthur in England (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/05/smartphones-killing-pc) said that In the first three months of this year, just under half of all the 45m mobile phones sold in western Europe fell into that category – able to browse the web, send and receive email, and run custom-written apps. So every day more people have one of this phones call smartphone.

And secondly, in the other page created by Jeff Bertolucci in the United States (http://www.pcworld.com/article/249313/smartphone_sales_boom_who_needs_a_laptop_.html) tell us that phones are already more popular than computers. New research by Canalys shows that 2011 global smartphone shipments topped those of client PCs including desktops, laptops, netbooks, and tablets for the first time and also it said fact that the mobile phone has become the world's preferred computing device.
In conclusion mi ideas supported by de websites are correct, so computers will be replace by smartphones that are intelligent phone whit internet and a lot of applications and also because they are more comfortable, easier to transport and smaller.

COMULATIVE

News Report:
http://www.glogster.com/martinelorriaga/news/g-6l8nkdbfavlsop4mambffa0

Interview:
http://www.glogster.com/martinelorriaga/interview/g-6l8j6h3ah8e9j4s3b9f6na0

Advertising

Advertising: Is a form of comunication used to persuade the people, it can be with images, posters,  publicity, etc. Advertising is composed with some things that make it more convincing like features, target market, placemente and strategies.


Features: This is what is special about the product that we are trying to sell.


Target Market: This is to who is the avertising direct. Whe can divide it in some groups like age, gender, income, type of person, etc.


Placement: Is when and where will the advertising appear. For example in what TVchannel or during wich shows, what time of the day.


Strategies: There are a lot of strategies that someone can use to convince the people. It can be music, sounds, color, image, humor, famous people. 

Letters

Dear Mark:

Brother, we are living in really hard times, our house is a very little house, and it only has two little rooms. In one room sleep our fathers and in the other room sleep me and our brothers. In our room are two beds to the four brothers so I sleep with Jessica and Peter sleep with Luke, but sometimes I sleep with Luke because he said that Peter make a lot of noise. All the mornings a mockingbird sings outside the window and tells us that a new day is starting.

We live with only one bathroom to all the family and when someone is using it we have to go to the toilet of the restaurant that is near the house.

We have one dining room, that the only time that we use  it is to lunch because in this house there is not food, all the days of the week we lunch the same, lettuce with chicken, and on Sunday we do meet with lettuce. The rest of the day the only thing that have the desk are the cigarettes of our brother Peter, he bought it to a black men outside de football field.

Our kitchen only has a dishwasher and it has all the day dishes above, because in the family anyone wants to wash the dishes.

On summer days the house is very hot and we have to go outside the house searching water, on the other hand in winter days the house is very cold and we have to sleep all the brothers in one bed.

The people that live near our house live all in the same conditions, but there are some exceptions of some rich families that live in big houses. In one of these big houses lives the president of our country Franklin D. Roosevelt.

I hope that you like the letter, I will write you soon!

Dear Mark:

In this second letter I go to tell you some things that do the family without you. First our father work all the day doing some social activities, he left the house in the morning after the mockingbird sing and then he arrived at the night, so in the day we don’t saw him. Our mother work as housewife, she is always concerned of all the brothers. Peter our big brother is always outside the house with his friends, he always is doing bad things. Last week the police took him because he was smoking weed outside the house. Luke the other brother is always outside the house playing football with all his friends, he is a fan of football and is very happy because this year is the World Cup of Italy. Finally our little sister Jessica is a very good girl, she cries a lot but if you gave chocolate to her, she don’t cry any  more.

In the week the family is separated because a lot of things, so in the week end we try to met and do some familiar activities. We play cards all the Saturday night, I always win because I am very lucky, these games always finish with some fight but the next day is all perfect. One day in the month we receive the visit of our grandfathers and is the best day of the month, because we eat delicious things, we visit beautiful places and do things that we never do.

Thank you for reading the letter!

Dear Brother:

In this letter I going to tell you how is the school and my friends. The school is not a big school but there are a lot of students, there are men’s and women’s, whites and blacks, there are all the type of person. The classrooms are divided in two, one to the black boys and one to the white boys. I don’t understand why but I think that this is not good. On break times we always play a football match between blacks and white that all the times finish with a very big fight. The white’s boys don’t have black friends and the black boys don’t have white friends. But I think that I am the exception because my best friend is a black boy called Nelson, he is a very good boy and we like the same things. All my white friends said me that I am abnormal because I have a black friend but I am think that it is normal and that the other people is bad. One time I visit Nelson house and in that moment I think that I was lucky because Nelson lives in the misery, he sleep with all his family in the floor, he eat only one day of the week, he eat and go to the toilet in the same place, Nelson house was very amazing, after that visit I try to help Nelson

The teachers are all whites people and the classes are boring. They always talk about the bad moment that the economy of our country is living. We have five hours of classes each day, but I have one more because I stay to football classes with Luke.

I hope that you like the letter, I will write you soon!

Dear Mark:

This is the last letter that I send you and I going to tell you what is happening in our country now. Our country is living an economic depression. Also there are a lot of conflicts between white people and black people, these is because the black people want to have the same rights that the whites. All the newspapers and radios talk about the same things and conflicts, all the countries fell with the fell of our country there is like an domino effect, especially the countries that depends of our country like Chile that is the country that lose more in the economic crisis.

There are also a lot of new technology items that change the world and each day is a new item that revolutionizes all the world.

Thank you for reading the letter!

SUMMARY TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (CHAPTER 6 AND 7)

Jem and Dill followed the orders of Atticus, who orders them to stop bothering the Radley property and that poor man. Although this good attitude only lasts till the last day of Dill in Maycomb, in the moment when Jem and he plan to sneak over to the Radley Place and finds their way in through a loose entrance. Finally Scout gets involved too, and they crawl around the house. While crawling, the three of them see the shadow of a man with a hat on and run away, and they heard a shotgun being shot off behind them. They got away by passing under the fence, but suddenly Jem’s pants get stuck on the fence, so if he wants to get free he would kick them. The kids return home and encounter all the adults on the neighborhood: Miss Maudie, Atticus, and Miss Stephanie Crawford; known as the “neighborhood gossip”. Miss Maudie in his speech declares that Mr. Nathan Radley shot at a Negro in his yard. After that, Atticus asks Jem where his pants are; and Dill interrupts and says that he won Jem’s pants in a poker game. Worried about this, Atticus asks them if they were actually using cards. Jem answers that they were playing with matches. That night, Jem makes his way to the Radley Place, and manages to get back his pants.  School began few days later, and Jem tells Scout that he found the pants hanging neatly over the fence, like him someone had found them and just hung them. After school that same day, they found another object hidden in the middle of the knothole: a ball of gray twine. They left it there for a few days, but no one claimed it, so they took it for their own. Among this, Scout declares that he does not feel happy in second grade, so as he did in first, and Jem promises her that school gets more entertaining the farther along one stays. Late that season, another present appears in the knothole: now they were two figures carved in soap to represent Scout and Jem. The three figures are followed by the next objects: chewing gum, a spelling bee medal, and an old pocket watch. The next day, Jem and Scout find that the knothole has been fulfilled with cement, so no more presents are supposed to be delivered.